UEFA chief tells Shane Ross that Noel Mooney is an FAI president

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross says that UEFA President Alexander Ceferin has told him that Noel Mooney’s appointment as interim General Manager in Abbotstown was a decision taken by the FAI, not UEFA.

While acknowledging that his conversation with the UEFA President was “very short” and “on a very bad line to Baku”, Minister Ross said it was made absolutely clear to him that it was the FAI who made the appointment.